Taboo – Choice (Book 2-Episode 1): The Unfinished Song Series – An Epic Faerie Tale
By Tara Maya
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Long ago, to win a war, humans Cursed the Aelfae, fairest and wisest of the faeries… But all magic has a price. The same Curse that destroyed the Aelfae now threatens all of Faearth. One young woman and the warrior she loves must fight the Curse to prove which is stronger…love or death.
DINDI desperate longs to become a Tavaedi, a magic dancer. But no one in her clan has ever passed the Test at Initiation. To violate the taboo, and dance without permission, is to risk death. The only other way to prove worthy is even more unthinkable: to bargain with the fae.
KAVIO is the half-human son of the Last Aelfae, exited from his tribe. Refusing to be a pawn in his tribe’s struggles, his only goal is to find a new, peaceful life. But when he catches Dindi violating a taboo, he must choose between condemning her to death or helping her. Even if it means war.
The Unfinished Song series is an epic, romantic fantasy appropriate for an older Young Adult and for a New Adult readership, as well as for readers of any age who love magic, love, adventure and happy endings.
PLEASE NOTE…
There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?
This is the first episode of the second novel, Taboo.
If you prefer to read the first novel, you can find Initiate (The Unfinished Song, Book 1) on the online site where you found this episode.
You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.
The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.
The complete series of novels (seven episodes each):
Initiate
Taboo
Sacrifice
Root
Wing
Blood
Mask
Mirror
Maze
Sworn
Flute
Wheel
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Taboo – Choice (Book 2-Episode 1) - Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song
Book 2: Taboo
Episode 1: Choice
There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?
Right now, you are reading the first episode of the first novel, Initiate. Each week, a new episode will be available.
If you prefer to read the first novel, you can find Initiate (The Unfinished Song, Book 1) on the online site where you found this episode.
You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.
The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.
Even better, you can request a review copy by emailing me: tara[at]taramayastales[dot]com or my publisher, editor[at]misquepress[dot]com.
Episode One
Choice
Gremo
Initiation? Let me tell you how I failed it.
I don’t know when I first knew I was different. When I was a child, I heard whispers at the edge of my hearing, snickers when my back was turned. I caught old people staring at me with disgust. Children who played with me when I was little, one by one, stopped. I told myself I didn’t need them. I had my love, the river. I loved to fish, and spent long afternoons listening to the mermaids in the river humming their songs while I fished with a hook and line, or set nets, depending on the season. My favorite time of year was the spawning of the salmon, when hundreds of fish would leap into my nets, as if they loved me so much they’d braved rapids all the way from the sea just to be mine.
At the dying of every day, my mother dragged me back to the clanhold, to the whispers and the stares. As I grew older, I wanted, needed, to know the painful secret that would explain why everyone hated me. I strained my ears to hear the ugly words pitched too low to glean more than scraps. Rape. Monster. Better off dead. I became a fisher of words, baiting hooks, dragging secrets from the depths beneath the rapid bubbling gossip. Old wounds flopped like dead-eyed puffer fish in my net. Nothing I wanted to eat: poison. I was spear-spawn. I should never have been born.
One night, a Vision appeared before me, the ghostly figure of a strong, powerful man. Tattoos covered his cheeks and chest. Numerous braids dangled from a topknot at the back of his head. I knew at once this man was my father.
They are coming!
whispered the Vision urgently. Hate twisted his face. You must come to me, son! You must—
I reached to touch him, but my hand passed right through the Vision, as if through smoke. I could no more catch hold of him than